Golf (aka, how to dress like a nonce)

Congratulations to Robert MacIntyre on winning the Scottish Open today.

Scottish Open: Home hero Robert MacIntyre secures one-shot win - BBC Sport
Missed tickets for The Open next week but did get slung a freebie for the final practice day on Wed so will head down to Troon for that.

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Great birdie up the last.

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Great day to go, the players are a bit more relaxed and generally interact with the crowd a lot more.

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One pic from Troon
Dechambeau on the green at the forth,.
Will try to post another couple later signal being an arse.

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That’s what you’re up against at the postage stamp and Speith about to have a go.

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Did you enjoy the day?

Yes was great. A lot busier than I expected tbh. Players, caddies, Marshalls lot more relaxed and having a bit of craic with the crowd which was nice.
Jeagar is my tip from the paddock. No idea who he is but he looked to be playing really well over the few holes I seen him play. Chambeau and Speith both out on their own, multiple balls on every hole I saw so both of them not there for a fckabout either.
Be interesting to see how the they handle some proper links weather

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Well done Dan Brown!

Whatever happens in the next three days he can always say he was leading The Open.

Northallerton lad did good.

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Great to see the worlds best struggling - proper golf.

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Went to the driving range the other day with FoL#1 Ellie and her bf, who is a fairly keen golfer.

Not swung a club in at least 10 years so naturally took the big dog driver out, tried to remember all the set up stuff and gave it a big swing, fully expecting what used to be my usual result, a great big swooping slice.

Hit it fully square and it went 250 ish yards and straight down the middle, to the absolute astonishment of all present.

Then proceeded to work my way through the bag with pretty much the same result (obvs there was a few that went awry, but far fewer than I was expecting or used to.

So my top tip to cure a chronic slice is to stop playing for a decade or so.

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A 250 yd drive puts you in the top 30% of amateur golfers.
Time to get out on the course!

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I have a lot of potential energy stored up.

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I was once physically ejected from a municipal golf course for using the c-word.

I think it was North Wales somewhere.

Just sayin’

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Got to say, I really didn’t think he’d still be in such close touch going into the final round.

Wonderful stuff, especially in the conditions today!

Astonishing golf in dreadful weather
The skill levels are amazing. Playing par golf in this is icredible

I once played a links like course (Pennard in South Wales) in driving rain and wind.
By the fourth hole the only thing I was counting was how many balls I had left in my bag. It was a war of attrition just to get round

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Dan Brown tied 10th which is an amazing result and gives him an automatic exemption for next year .
Great result for Justin Rose in second and a wonderful win for Xander Schauffele with 7 birdies today.
He went from being the best player never to win a major to becoming a member of the rare club that wins 2 or more in a season

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Club champs today.

7 over gross. Good enough for second. The scratch golfer who was favourite to win blew up over the last three holes and came third.

Would have won the nett prize by a couple.

Nice bottle of wine for the neary on the first.

It is nice when the sun shines on you.

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Had Senior Champs today.
NR on the 17th :rage:

Was it that bad to nr?

After the third prov went out of bounds!